Technical Product Owner - Core Services
RemoteEmea, Sulawesi Tengah, Republic of Indonesia
Job Summary
Translate VP-level strategy into a sequenced backlog of problems, user stories, and acceptance criteria to drive rapid, thin-sliced delivery for Core Services. Maintain a disciplined cadence of backlog refinement and sprint readiness while partnering with engineering leads on technical tradeoffs and delivery planning. Leverage hands-on DevOps experience to deeply understand cloud operator workflows, validate assumptions through 3-5 customer calls weekly, and shape hypotheses for beta or design-partner motions. Define success metrics for adoption, reliability, and time-to-value, ensuring release readiness and clear communication of new capabilities. Operate as an embedded member of the Core Services Engineering team to ensure cohesive UX, APIs, and operational behavior across identity, authentication, and shared services.
Required Qualifications
- 7–10 years of hands-on experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, SRE, Cloud Engineer, Solutions Architect, or a similar roles working with or building products for public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure)
- A strong product sense for turning messy problems into clear scope and shipped value - without waiting for perfect information
- Systems thinking: Ability to reason about complex distributed systems, architectural tradeoffs, and long-term platform evolution
- Prioritization: Demonstrated ability to balance customer needs, engineering constraints, and platform investments when making prioritization decisions
- Deep curiosity and technical fluency in cloud fundamentals (cost/billing concepts, identity/IAM, networking, compute, Kubernetes, observability, automation), and experience building solutions that leverage or focus on these technologies
- Excellent communication skills: you can explain complex ideas simply, facilitate alignment, and confidently engage with customers and experts
- A bias for action and continuous improvement: you ship, measure, learn, and iterate - building capabilities that become a meaningful competitive differentiator
- Location: EMEA and US East locations
Desired Qualifications
- Coding experience is a plus - enough to collaborate effectively with engineers, reason about feasibility, and understand system behaviors
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